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from .object cimport PyObject, PyTypeObject, Py_TYPE  # legacy imports for re-export

cdef extern from "Python.h": 
    ##################################################################### 
    # 3. Reference Counts 
    ##################################################################### 
    # The macros in this section are used for managing reference counts of Python objects. 
    void Py_INCREF(object o) 
    # Increment the reference count for object o. The object must not 
    # be NULL; if you aren't sure that it isn't NULL, use 
    # Py_XINCREF(). 
 
    void Py_XINCREF(PyObject* o) 
    # Increment the reference count for object o. The object may be NULL, in which case the macro has no effect. 
 
    void Py_DECREF(object o) 
    # Decrement the reference count for object o. The object must not 
    # be NULL; if you aren't sure that it isn't NULL, use 
    # Py_XDECREF(). If the reference count reaches zero, the object's 
    # type's deallocation function (which must not be NULL) is 
    # invoked. 
 
    # Warning: The deallocation function can cause arbitrary Python 
    # code to be invoked (e.g. when a class instance with a __del__() 
    # method is deallocated). While exceptions in such code are not 
    # propagated, the executed code has free access to all Python 
    # global variables. This means that any object that is reachable 
    # from a global variable should be in a consistent state before 
    # Py_DECREF() is invoked. For example, code to delete an object 
    # from a list should copy a reference to the deleted object in a 
    # temporary variable, update the list data structure, and then 
    # call Py_DECREF() for the temporary variable. 
 
    void Py_XDECREF(PyObject* o) 
    # Decrement the reference count for object o. The object may be 
    # NULL, in which case the macro has no effect; otherwise the 
    # effect is the same as for Py_DECREF(), and the same warning 
    # applies. 
 
    void Py_CLEAR(PyObject* o) 
    # Decrement the reference count for object o. The object may be 
    # NULL, in which case the macro has no effect; otherwise the 
    # effect is the same as for Py_DECREF(), except that the argument 
    # is also set to NULL. The warning for Py_DECREF() does not apply 
    # with respect to the object passed because the macro carefully 
    # uses a temporary variable and sets the argument to NULL before 
    # decrementing its reference count. 
    # It is a good idea to use this macro whenever decrementing the 
    # value of a variable that might be traversed during garbage 
    # collection.